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The designer with model Tali Lennox in his collaboration line for Topshop.

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J.W. Anderson Fall 2011

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J.W. Anderson Spring 2012

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J.W. Anderson Spring 2012

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J.W. Anderson Spring 2012

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J.W. Anderson Pre-Fall 2012

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J.W. Anderson Pre-Fall 2012

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J.W. Anderson Resort 2013

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J.W. Anderson Spring 2013

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Donatella Versace’s happy hunting ground for young collaborators—she often quips she loves to surround herself with kids her own age—is always London. Her latest signing is 27-year-old Jonathan Anderson, aka J.W. Anderson, who as of today steps into the Versus boots vacated by Christopher Kane last month (he bowed out after six seasons to concentrate fully on his own label) for a capsule collection. What a week for “J-Dubs” (as his friends have nicknamed him): Having won the Emerging Talent prize at the British Fashion Awards on Tuesday, he finds himself with his head already in the Versus archive on Thursday. He tells us from Milan, “It’s really exciting. What I see in here is all about a girl and a boy, a girl and a girl, and a boy and a boy—from the beginning, Donatella was always a pioneer with that sense of a kind of a Versus tribe. That’s what I really relate to.”

Donatella is planning to switch things up, though. Next spring, the Versus show will be in New York rather than Milan (actually New York City is her old stomping-ground, as she showed in New York from 1995 to 2003.) Second, the new version of Versus is going to consist of women’s and men’s clothing all at the same time. And third: It’s breaking out of the normal round of collections. Maybe Donatella’s been inspired by the phenomenal success of the H&M collaboration show she staged in New York and plans to harness some of that turbocharged energy for herself?

See our slideshow above of looks from J.W. Anderson throughout the years.